A projected view of 3-dimensional space that displays from one to three sides of an object. The lines in an axonometric view do not converge to vanishing points as they do in a perspective view, so lines that are parallel in 3D space are parallel in the view. For this reason, diagonal and curved lines can appear to be distorted.

Axonometric view of model

Isometric and orthographic views are special cases of axonometric views.